Intergen Twilight Seminar: Constructive Disruption with Cloud TechnologiesIntergen
What is cloud computing and what does it mean for your business today?
Microsoft New Zealand will share insights into cloud computing including:
• Beyond the hype - what really is cloud computing?
• The business case for cloud
• Showcases of what cloud computing is doing for New Zealand companies
• Economics of cloud computing and cost considerations
• Implementation tips and recommendations to get started
• Demonstration of Microsoft’s leading cloud productivity suite – Office365
Learn about Microsoft Office365 - a set of cloud-enabled tools that let you access your email, documents, contacts, and calendars from virtually anywhere, on almost any device. Office 365 brings together our best communication and collaboration tools including Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Lync in an always-up-to-date cloud service, for a low flexible monthly subscription. And we’ll show you this works and how to assess whether or not cloud computing makes sense for your organisation and what it takes to get there.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
VMware remains the server virtualization leader, but competitors have emerged with attractive alternatives, especially for server consolidation and virtual infrastructure management. Focus first on business requirements so that current and future virtualization requirements can be met now and for years to come by the vendor that you choose. However, don’t automatically go with the vendor with the most market share, as many competitors have compelling offerings that may be good enough, especially if the internal cloud is not in your immediate plans.
Use this research to:
•Understand current capabilities of server virtualization vendors.
•Evaluate offerings of VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Red Hat & Oracle for best fit.
•Use scenario analysis and case studies to shortlist vendors.
•Assess implementation recommendations and pitfalls.
Make best-fit server virtualization decisions to balance the best server virtualization capabilities with lowest TCO.
Transforming Your Business Through Cloud ComputingAMD
AMD Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Mike Wolfe, for offers insight into how AMD is using leading virtualization and cloud computing technologies to transform its business - reducing costs, increasing efficiency and bolstering productivity.
Intergen Twilight Seminar: Constructive Disruption with Cloud TechnologiesIntergen
What is cloud computing and what does it mean for your business today?
Microsoft New Zealand will share insights into cloud computing including:
• Beyond the hype - what really is cloud computing?
• The business case for cloud
• Showcases of what cloud computing is doing for New Zealand companies
• Economics of cloud computing and cost considerations
• Implementation tips and recommendations to get started
• Demonstration of Microsoft’s leading cloud productivity suite – Office365
Learn about Microsoft Office365 - a set of cloud-enabled tools that let you access your email, documents, contacts, and calendars from virtually anywhere, on almost any device. Office 365 brings together our best communication and collaboration tools including Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Lync in an always-up-to-date cloud service, for a low flexible monthly subscription. And we’ll show you this works and how to assess whether or not cloud computing makes sense for your organisation and what it takes to get there.
Cloud computing is the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources as a service over the internet (public cloud) or intranet (private cloud)
VMware remains the server virtualization leader, but competitors have emerged with attractive alternatives, especially for server consolidation and virtual infrastructure management. Focus first on business requirements so that current and future virtualization requirements can be met now and for years to come by the vendor that you choose. However, don’t automatically go with the vendor with the most market share, as many competitors have compelling offerings that may be good enough, especially if the internal cloud is not in your immediate plans.
Use this research to:
•Understand current capabilities of server virtualization vendors.
•Evaluate offerings of VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Red Hat & Oracle for best fit.
•Use scenario analysis and case studies to shortlist vendors.
•Assess implementation recommendations and pitfalls.
Make best-fit server virtualization decisions to balance the best server virtualization capabilities with lowest TCO.
Transforming Your Business Through Cloud ComputingAMD
AMD Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Mike Wolfe, for offers insight into how AMD is using leading virtualization and cloud computing technologies to transform its business - reducing costs, increasing efficiency and bolstering productivity.
Permal case study (IaaS, Hosting, Citrix Management & Intrusion Detection)Andreas Ramov
Long standing customer Permal, a leading alternative asset management
firm, was looking to focus on running its business, rather than running its
infrastructure. With an expensive technology refresh imminent, the firm
considered its options and found SunGard Availability Services’ enterprise class
private cloud to be a secure, flexible and cost-effective solution.
Data Center Operational Efficiency RoundtableHerb Hernandez
Presentation from April 19 webinar: Data Center Operational Efficiency Best Practices Video Roundtable. Featuring speakers from IBM, IDC and The NFL. http://bit.ly/LjNaHL
Offre Cloud IBM Software [Rational] - Atelier - Forum SaaS et Cloud IBM - Clu...Club Alliances
Présentation préparée par Michel Speranski [IBM Software - Rational] dans le cadre du Forum SaaS et Cloud IBM [5 février 2010], organisé par le Club Alliances
This short paper discusses technical and financial advantages of server virtualization. The concepts in the paper are illustrated by two case studies which analyze the net present value of virtualization projects based on potential power savings.
The mainstream of technology pros are still well and truly wedged in the past relative to the strategic behaviors of cloud computing. All but a few are embracing cloud as “just another technology”, leaving choices on what way to implement, own and administer to engineers. To get the maximum business value from your cloud investments enterprises need to appreciate that it is NOT a technical judgment but it’s a strategic one.
However, don’t get me wrong. It’s necessary for technical people to be involved. But let’s be crystal clear, any enterprise strategy will collapse before first execution if it doesn’t embrace beyond I.T departments.
Time for Converged Infrastructure? Executives Discuss the Operational and Str...EMC
CIOs whose organizations have significant Converged Infrastructure implementations share how convergence is transforming the cost structure, performance profile, and business value of information technology infrastructure.
The Cloud, The Enterprise Architect and the CIOMatt Deacon
The cloud is everywhere with every CIO asking IT where's mine? So what do we do? This deck discusses talking clouds and how business capabilities can get you looking above technology and process plus some thoughts on tools in Agile that coupld be applied at the EA level
Cloud: a disruptive technlogy that CEO should use to transform their businessBertrand MAES
Cloud:
What cloud really means ?
How it should help CEO transform their business ?
How it should help CEO transform their IT department ?
Prerequisite for a sucessful cloud project
The Adoption of Cloud Technology by Enterprises - A Whitepaper by RapidValueRapidValue
If we go back in time, people were dependent on the physical computer storage or servers in order to run their programs. Now, with the introduction of cloud computing, people, organizations and enterprises are able to access their programs through the Internet. Cloud computing is gaining prominence, rapidly, and the popularity is growing, each day. Cloud computing is big business, today.According to PC Magazine, it was, already, generating around $100 billion a year in 2012. It is forecasted to increase up to $270 billion by the year 2020.
Enterprises and organizations, these days, are relying heavily on the cloud services and cloud platforms to obtain resources on-demand and that too, in an automated manner.
Organizations can, now, only pay for the resources that they use. Enterprises, also,
relinquish unnecessary resources with the help of using a self-service portal. This serves as a big cost-effective solution, as you can eliminate the need for investing a huge sum of money as capital investment.
This paper addresses the primary reasons for the enterprises migrating to the cloud infrastructure, various types of cloud deployment (technology & services) models IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud, feature comparison of three popular cloud platforms - AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and some examples of how enterprises and consumers are using the cloud technology.
This kit provides an easy way to find all of the Citrix cloud solutions-related external case study materials including:
Case studies
Customer overview slides
Customer videos
Customer quotes
The kit is grouped by these customer types:
Service Providers
Government
Education
Enterprises
Companies increasingly look at cloud-based technologies as a means of delivering the next generation of IT via a low cost, dynamic and flexible resource platform.
Permal case study (IaaS, Hosting, Citrix Management & Intrusion Detection)Andreas Ramov
Long standing customer Permal, a leading alternative asset management
firm, was looking to focus on running its business, rather than running its
infrastructure. With an expensive technology refresh imminent, the firm
considered its options and found SunGard Availability Services’ enterprise class
private cloud to be a secure, flexible and cost-effective solution.
Data Center Operational Efficiency RoundtableHerb Hernandez
Presentation from April 19 webinar: Data Center Operational Efficiency Best Practices Video Roundtable. Featuring speakers from IBM, IDC and The NFL. http://bit.ly/LjNaHL
Offre Cloud IBM Software [Rational] - Atelier - Forum SaaS et Cloud IBM - Clu...Club Alliances
Présentation préparée par Michel Speranski [IBM Software - Rational] dans le cadre du Forum SaaS et Cloud IBM [5 février 2010], organisé par le Club Alliances
This short paper discusses technical and financial advantages of server virtualization. The concepts in the paper are illustrated by two case studies which analyze the net present value of virtualization projects based on potential power savings.
The mainstream of technology pros are still well and truly wedged in the past relative to the strategic behaviors of cloud computing. All but a few are embracing cloud as “just another technology”, leaving choices on what way to implement, own and administer to engineers. To get the maximum business value from your cloud investments enterprises need to appreciate that it is NOT a technical judgment but it’s a strategic one.
However, don’t get me wrong. It’s necessary for technical people to be involved. But let’s be crystal clear, any enterprise strategy will collapse before first execution if it doesn’t embrace beyond I.T departments.
Time for Converged Infrastructure? Executives Discuss the Operational and Str...EMC
CIOs whose organizations have significant Converged Infrastructure implementations share how convergence is transforming the cost structure, performance profile, and business value of information technology infrastructure.
The Cloud, The Enterprise Architect and the CIOMatt Deacon
The cloud is everywhere with every CIO asking IT where's mine? So what do we do? This deck discusses talking clouds and how business capabilities can get you looking above technology and process plus some thoughts on tools in Agile that coupld be applied at the EA level
Cloud: a disruptive technlogy that CEO should use to transform their businessBertrand MAES
Cloud:
What cloud really means ?
How it should help CEO transform their business ?
How it should help CEO transform their IT department ?
Prerequisite for a sucessful cloud project
The Adoption of Cloud Technology by Enterprises - A Whitepaper by RapidValueRapidValue
If we go back in time, people were dependent on the physical computer storage or servers in order to run their programs. Now, with the introduction of cloud computing, people, organizations and enterprises are able to access their programs through the Internet. Cloud computing is gaining prominence, rapidly, and the popularity is growing, each day. Cloud computing is big business, today.According to PC Magazine, it was, already, generating around $100 billion a year in 2012. It is forecasted to increase up to $270 billion by the year 2020.
Enterprises and organizations, these days, are relying heavily on the cloud services and cloud platforms to obtain resources on-demand and that too, in an automated manner.
Organizations can, now, only pay for the resources that they use. Enterprises, also,
relinquish unnecessary resources with the help of using a self-service portal. This serves as a big cost-effective solution, as you can eliminate the need for investing a huge sum of money as capital investment.
This paper addresses the primary reasons for the enterprises migrating to the cloud infrastructure, various types of cloud deployment (technology & services) models IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud, feature comparison of three popular cloud platforms - AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and some examples of how enterprises and consumers are using the cloud technology.
This kit provides an easy way to find all of the Citrix cloud solutions-related external case study materials including:
Case studies
Customer overview slides
Customer videos
Customer quotes
The kit is grouped by these customer types:
Service Providers
Government
Education
Enterprises
Companies increasingly look at cloud-based technologies as a means of delivering the next generation of IT via a low cost, dynamic and flexible resource platform.
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its
essential fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure,
virtualized resources and automated processes—and the
business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents
a paradigm shift at many levels, but the ‘return on investment’
that cloud customers are realizing cannot be overstated.
Jelastic Hybrid Cloud on Google Cloud Platform Ruslan Synytsky
Jelastic can be installed on top of Google Cloud Compute Engine as Virtual Private Cluster. At the same time enterprises can use same version of Jelastic Private Cloud on-premise. It provides 100% compatibility between private and public clouds, and full automation for easy migration between the clouds.
100% compatibility between Public and Private Clouds is the key requirement for fast adoption by enterprises.
The migration of legacy applications and databases to the cloud is always a challenging activity. However, with the right strategy and meticulous execution, workload migration can be made seamless.
At CCS Technologies, we manage all technical, service, and commercial aspects of migrating your legacy systems to the cloud. Our team of experts offers guidance on suitable migration strategies for moving data and applications from on-premise to the cloud, or for moving from one cloud service provider to another. We take care of every aspect of migration and leave you with a hassle-free optimized setup on the cloud with zero downtime.
Know more: https://ccs-technologies.com/infra-cloud-services/#ics_cs
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
Why buy a plane when you can just reserve a seat on a flight?rstacey51
Would you buy a plane to fly to a few places in the coming year? In the same way, why would you invest in a traditional IT model when you could be running a flexible, fully-integrated cloud infrastructure?
Your company’s computing capacity is only as valuable as it is efficient and cost effective. Its ultimate value is whether or not it enables your business to do more with less.
Download this white paper from IBM.
Good news from the Worldwide Consulting Desktop & Apps (DnA) team! We’ve just finished updating theVirtual Desktop Handbook for XenDesktop 7, StoreFront 2.0 and XenServer 6.2.
The Virtual Desktop Handbook is an architect’s guide to desktop virtualization. It provides you with the methodology, experience and best practices you need to successfully design your own desktop virtualization solution.
Updates in this release include:
Resource requirements for Windows 8 and Server 2012
XD controller sizing
XenDesktop 7 policy guidelines
Database sizing for XenDesktop 7
SQL 2012 chapter
StoreFront 2.0 chapter
32-bit or 64-bit desktop OS guidance
Desktop group & StoreFront integration
In addition, we’ve also included a Citrix policy quick reference spreadsheet so that you can quickly identify default, baseline and template settings from XenDesktop 5 / XenApp 6 all the way up to XenDesktop 7. Thanks go out to Michael Havens, Maria Chang and Uzair Ali for creating this great reference spreadsheet.
I hope you find this handbook useful during your next desktop virtualization project.
And we’re not done yet, future updates will include:
Bandwidth
Hyper-V 2012
PVS 7
User data
And more …
The Virtual Desktop Handbook is not the only resource to guide you through your desktop virtualization journey. Citrix also provides Project Accelerator; an interactive online tool creating customized sizing and design recommendations based on the methodology, best practices and expert advice identified within this handbook.
You can still reach the XenDesktop 5 handbook using the old URL – CTX136546
Andy Baker – Architect
Worldwide Consulting
Desktop & Apps Team
http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/10/10/new-xendesktop-7-handbook-published/
Reference architecture dir and es - finalNuno Alves
Citrix Director with EdgeSight provides a complete troubleshooting window to quickly resolve issues around desktops or applications. Previous versions of XenApp leveraged EdgeSight, while XenDesktop deployments looked to Director for assistance. Starting in XenDesktop 7, these two great technologies have been merged into one central point for troubleshooting.
The purpose of this document will be to provide you an overviewof all the necessary parts required to give your company a holistic view. With this being a new product with new features, this document will provide administrators the tools to feel comfortable moving forward with monitoring of a XenDesktop 7 deployment.
This document will cover the configuration of the Director server, as well as how to interface with the Insight Center provided from our NetScaler product line. For more of an overview of the EdgeSight product, please reference the whitepapersfound at www.citrix.com/xendesktop.
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX139051
Provisioning server high_availability_considerations2Nuno Alves
The purpose of this document is to give the target audience an overview about the critical components of a Citrix
Provisioning Server infrastructure with regards to a high availability implementation. These considerations focus on the
following areas:
• Virtual Disk (vDisk) Storage
• Write Cache Placement
• SQL Database
• TFTP Service
• DHCP Service
Xd planning guide - storage best practicesNuno Alves
The Citrix Storage planning guide provides a list of best practices, recommendations and
performance related tips that cover the most critical areas of storage integration with Citrix
XenDesktop. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning and configuring storage
infrastructures, nor as a storage training handbook.
Due to scope, this guide provides some device-specific information. For additional device- specific
configuration, Citrix suggests reviewing the storage vendor’s documentation, the storage vendor’s
hardware compatibility list, and contacting the vendor’s technical support if necessary
This document is an introduction to Disk Storage technologies and its terminology. Within this
document basic disk and storage architectures as well as storage protocols and common fault
tolerance technologies will be discussed. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning
and configuring storage infrastructures, nor as a storage training handbook.
Due to scope, this guide provides some device-specific information. For additional device- specific
configuration, Citrix suggests reviewing the storage vendor‘s documentation, the storage vendor‘s
hardware compatibility list, and contacting the vendor‘s technical support if necessary.
For design best practices and planning guidance, Citrix recommends reviewing the Storage Best
Practices and Planning Guide (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130632)
This document describes how XenServer provides and keeps track of the storage supplied to its guests. The first section
is a reminder of how Linux looks at storage and the second section builds on that to explain XenServer storage. Basic
knowledge of Linux is required, as some standard tools are used.
XenDesktop relies on the hypervisor for many core functions, including VM creation, power operations, performance and redundancy. Therefore, it is important that you take the time to design an appropriate hypervisor infrastructure (XenServer, Hyper-V or vSphere). Otherwise, you may experience performance, functionality or even reliability issues.
Most information required to design a XenDesktop deployment on your chosen hypervisor platform is available publicly, but it can be hard to find since it’s spread across a multitude of knowledge base articles or white papers. In order to simplify and speed-up the design process, we’re in the process of consolidating the information that you need into a single document and augmenting it with recommendations and best practices. We’ve just finished incorporating the Hyper-V 2008 R2 and SCVMM 2012 planning section into the latest release of the Citrix Virtual Desktop Handbook, which includes important design decisions relating to this hypervisor, for example:
Selecting and sizing the right physical hardware for virtual machines
Knowing what storage options available for Hyper-V 2008 R2
What type of networks to build on the Hyper-V host
How to size the SCVMM servers
Designing a highly available SCVMM solution
Planning an effective failover cluster
The products covered in this current release of the handbook include XenDesktop 5.6, XenApp 6.5, Provisioning Services 6.x and XenClient Enterprise 4.5. A version of the Virtual Desktop Handbook covering XenDesktop 7.x, Provisioning Services 7, Hyper V 2012 R2 and SCVMM 2012 R2 is in the works with an initial release scheduled later in Q4. As always your feedback is welcomed.
http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/09/05/citrix-virtual-desktop-handbook-hyper-v-update/
CTX138217 - IntelliCache Reduction in IOPS: XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 on XenServer 6.1 - Citrix Knowledge Center http://ow.ly/o3Ma4
The purpose of this document is to provide testing results based on MCS-delivered streamed virtual desktops leveraging IntelliCache
NetScaler Deployment Guide for XenDesktop7Nuno Alves
This guide demonstrates how to deploy Citrix NetScaler in conjunction with Citrix XenDesktop 7 with a focus on both simplicity in configuration and advanced features not easily delivered with other products. This guide shows how to provision the XenDesktop 7 infrastructure, the NetScaler appliance and NetScaler Insight Center services to extend Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure and services to remote users in small to medium-size enterprises.